{"id":328,"date":"2025-10-18T10:34:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:34:24","slug":"in-the-garden-of-the-gods-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/in-the-garden-of-the-gods-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"in the garden of the gods (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>in the garden of the gods<\/strong><br><br>the god of the humans<br>is a parasitic vine<br>with carrion fruit<br>spreading thru the garden,<br>strangling the gods<br>of the redwood, the yew tree<br>and lignum vitae,<br>poisoning the gods<br>of the condor, the bison<br>and the bumblebee.<br>the gods with scales<br>and feathers and horns,<br>with roots and stalks<br>and flowers, with webs and shells<br>have no gods to pray to<br>for rescue.<br>the angels of the humans<br>weep<br>for their god&#8217;s victory<br>and their own demise.<br><br><em>\u2014 sylvester hobson<\/em><br><em>2025 october 18<\/em><br><br><em>halloween day 18<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the god of the humans \/ is a parasitic vine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[34,35,10],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2025","category-poetry","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}